{"id":7505,"date":"2022-02-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/simplify-quotes-requests-management-with-ai-builder\/"},"modified":"2022-02-07T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T15:00:00","slug":"simplify-quotes-requests-management-with-ai-builder","status":"publish","type":"power-automate","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/simplify-quotes-requests-management-with-ai-builder\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplify quote requests management with AI Builder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft AI Builder is a Power Platform capability that provides AI models that are designed to optimize your business processes by learning insights from your data. Companies receive thousands of quotes requests which are manually processed. Thanks to Microsoft AI Builder this can be automated so your workforce can focus on other higher value tasks.<\/p>\n

Background and challenge<\/h1>\n

Usually, customers request quotes by email which are processed with repetitive actions, identifying the product concerned, the quantity, checking the pricing applicable and potential rebates, finally answering the requester.<\/p>\n

AI can help to reduce the manual steps required by semi-automating the information gathering, lookups to the ERP and CRM system and preparing the response. This way you can save time and energy for more business impactful tasks like identifying upsell or cross-sell opportunities and more.<\/p>\n

What AI Builder can do<\/h1>\n

Microsoft AI Builder offers a wide range of natural language processing capabilities allowing to extract the relevant data in emails together with Microsoft Power Automate enabling to orchestrate the process\u2019 automation.<\/p>\n

In this context, Microsoft Power Automate can extract the raw text when an email arrives, send it to a prebuilt or customized AI Builder Entity Extraction model to extract the product name and quantity, and connect to your system matching the information required from the requestor to prepare the quotes.<\/p>\n

The agent must only perform the last mile by generating a document and replying to the requestor.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> Generating documents is in our roadmap so even this last step could be automated soon.<\/p>\n

Implement the solution<\/h1>\n

The initial step is to build a Power Automate flow that will orchestrate the process as summarized in the figure below:<\/p>\n

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Building the orchestration logic with Microsoft Power Automate<\/h4>\n

For this you can use built-in actions and connectors. A basic Microsoft Power Automate flow would look like this:<\/p>\n